ANimal Crossing

By Vi Robbinson

The Phoenix Student Media

Animal Crossing is a video game you can play on game consoles like the Nintendo Switch and Switch Lite. Animal Crossing has many pros like being a great stress reliever, having many comforting characters that you can quickly get attached to. The game has great graphics and great character development, you can dress your own characters, you can farm, you can decorate and add cliffs and waterfalls to your own island and now you can even cook! There are multiple dialog options for the villagers that YOU can choose. This game has a very peaceful vibe to it, this game can help with panic and anxiety attacks. This game is very calm and a good temper management game. The game has vibrant yet colorful characters and a slow paced development. There’s a museum that you can fill with insects, fish, and dinosaur fossils, a shop where you can buy materials and household items, a clothing store where you can get clothes thats premade in the game and a online game portal where you can get your own designs that people made in the game, you can even make your own designs. Along with “villagers”, villagers are animal characters with human-like personalities, the different personality types are cranky, jock, lazy, smug, normal, preppy, snooty and uchi. You can forge friendships with villagers, by giving them gifts, talking to them “daily” and spending time with them. You can catch fish, and insects, buy and upgrade your house with “loan payments’ You can talk to many of the agp characters. You can craft tools and furniture and decorate the items with the workbench in the town hall office that’s occupied by tom nook and isabelle.